New-Negotiation7234 t1_j52m63z wrote
Reply to comment by justme_mb in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
What I put in my living will is to have no artificial nutrition (tpn, tube feeding) if I am in a permanent altered mental status, dementia, or in a coma etc. The artificial nutrition is given wayyyy too often for no benefit to the person and it’s what keeps people alive. Also, once it is started it becomes VERY difficult for family members to take people off of it because they then feel like they are starving them and killing them. Not eating is a natural part of the death process.
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